A Chef’s Take on Preserving Your Harvest
by Jay Holecek As a chef who has worked with food from all over the world, I find it very fulfilling to preserve and value add common ingredients that would have otherwise gone to waste. When you consider food preservation, most people think of those mysterious cans of pickles that sit in the back of […]
You See I Want A Lot*
You see, I want a lot.
Perhaps I want everything:
the darkness of each infinite fall,
the shivering blaze of each step up.
Restoration: Young Men and Their Plot of Land
Like for any garden startup, we were concerned the land at the juvenile detention center would be barren. The very first order of business was to rent a rototiller to break up the soil.
Free People
The book Free People tackles the concept of ‘justice’ from a different perspective. Unlike current approaches to justice — ‘social justice,’ ‘procedural justice,’ ‘restorative justice,’ ‘retributive justice,’ and ‘distributive justice’ — it focuses on growing the generative capacity of the individual to withstand external conditions — of pain, inferiority, oppression, poverty — and grow from them into a deeper understanding of, and ultimately, union with, one’s antagonist.
Fig Spread
When the figs are ripe, they are ripe, and there is no denying them. On Cape Cod we have this particular purple fig that starts producing gorgeous ripe fruit towards the end of August. We brought this fig from our house in Connecticut. The tree was a baby at the time.
Excerpt from Rumi’s poem “Moses and the Shepherd”
… Ways of worshiping are not to be ranked as better
or worse than one another.
It’s all praise, and it’s all
right.
It’s not Me that’s glorified in acts of worship.
It’s the worshipers! I don’t hear the words
they say. I look at the humility.
The Art of Soulmaking
Excerpt from the Book – The Path to Unconditional Freedom Dear Soulmaker, Building a soul is the work of a lifetime. It never stops. It is the work we are all here to do and it is the work that must be done, because without a fully functioning soul — in you, in me, in […]
From Guard to Guardians
By Hesham Hauter A few months ago, I set out on a project to interview twenty Correctional Officers throughout the country. To take on this assignment, I had to educate myself on COs, cold call them, ask for interviews, and think up questions that would best bring out their humanity. I also had to learn […]
Informed by a Daffodil
By Edward Espe Brown My friend Sharon told me a story about a friend of hers who had been a nurse for the homeless in Boston and then retired and moved up to Maine. After not working for a couple of years, she got a job distributing medications at a maximum-security prison. In the spring, […]
Elderberry Syrup
By Louise Ayer My friend Priscilla and I have a great fondness for foraging. We love to pick the wild fruits, wine berries, black berries, wild grapes, beach plums, and elderberries. We will drive half an hour to an abandoned train track because Priscilla might have seen a cache of elderberries on a previous drive […]
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